Profile pic and Google profile appearing in search results

[questfore]

Do a Google search for: opensiteexplorer . The 2nd (may vary) result is an seoMOZ blog post, "Brand New Open Site Explorer is Here (and Linkscape's Updated, too)". Google is displaying Rand's pic and google profile link in the search result. How? Can't find the Google profile link in the seoMOZ page source.

[wissamdandan]

Its the Authorship Markup .

Now bloggers and Authors can enhance their snippet by adding rel= Author to their Author page.

The image is pull out from Rands G+ Profile.

the Way implemented is adding a rel="author" to link going to his author page

July 27th, 2011 - Posted by randfish to SEOmoz Tools

and when you go to Rand Profile you will see his G+ Profile with a rel=me.

to verify that rand is the an author on SEOmoz Blog ... Rand has linked to his Blog under links

https://plus.google.com/111294201325870406922/about

[Point_It]

The pic is actually from the blog post (though it is also used elsewhere), but the link to Rand's Google profile is likely there because the post identifies him as the author, links to his SEOmoz bio, and his SEOmoz bio has a link to his Google profile.

My first thought was to look for Schema code identifying the author, but that wasn't present.